Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-04
MONDAY MORNING. APRIL A. 1887.

terested in some remarks of the Utica (New
 York; Press, which says: An indiscriminate
 slaughter of calves from one hour to three
 days old is being carried on quite extensively in this and Herkimer county. They are ship ped to New York, where they put up as canned chicken.
 The following quotation from letter from one of the Southington strikers to friend in Sheffield, England, is going the rounds: "We have here an organized labor association named the Knights of Labor extending throughout America and Canada. The mem- bers number upward of million and it is the most powerful organization in the world. We are supported by it and I am nearly as we'll off not to work as when working" A novel insurance scheme has just been started in Buffalo. Its purpose is to enable parents, by means of small weekly payments, to provide for their boys at the age of 21 sum sufficient to give them business start, and to furnish all the girls with enough
 money to furnish homo handsomely after marriage. A payment of five cents a week, begun at birth and continued until the bene- 6ciary attains his majority, will yield an en- dowment of $1ss.34. A payment of 25 cents per week secures an endowment of $941. .76; $1 per week, $3, 762. The death of the bene- fciary cancels the policy.
 To-day the people of Michigan vote on the following proposed amendment to the con stitution: "The manufacture, gift or sale of spiritaous, malt or vinous liquors in this State, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical or scientific purposes, is prohibited; and no property right in such spirituous, malt or vinous liquors shall be deemed to exist, except the right to manufacture or sell for medicinal, mechanical, chemical or scientific purposes under such restrictions and regula- tions as may be provided for by law. The legislature shall enact laws with suitable penalties for the suppression of the manufac- ture, gale and keeping for sale or gift of in- toxicating liquors, except as herein specified" There has been very lively campaign, and the prohibitionists have dene much hard and we'll directed work.
 The labor troubles have not been a good thing for some of the Massachusetts towns. It is stated in Bradstreet's that since 1870 twenty-three firms have withdrawn their business wholly or in part from Lynn alone. In their outside factories they employ 5,e80 hands, representing population of at least 12,OOO, and pay s2,35s, ,OOO in annual wages. Five firms, employing 600 hands and paying $350,o00 year for wages, have left Haver- hil1 three firms, employing 315 operatives, earning s141 1000 per annum, have gone from Beverly; six, with TAO hands, receiving $751; 900, from Stoneham, and the same number, employing l, 1,275 persons, and paying them $533, ,000 year, from Marblehead. From the places named, all told, thirty-fve estab- lishments have been moved to New Hamp- shire and Maine. In these States they em- ploy 8,155 persons, and pay them as wages $3, 321 ,000 annually-all of which persons, it is represented, would have been employed and money distributed in Massachusetts but for the labor agitation of recent years. The loss to that State in the value of goods made is estimated at s9,495, 900 yearly. It is as- serted by some that the trade of Lynn has fallen off one-third during the past five years, and that of Hsverhill $1 900, 900, and that of Beverly 5000, 900 within twelve months